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The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Anne Arundel County will recognize 13 local women in honor of voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Two Mississippi Museums are now displaying the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom was ...

Hamer received the honor in 2025, nearly 50 years after her death. The Presidential Medal of Freedom that was posthumously awarded to Fannie Lou Hamer is officially available for public viewing. The ...

This one-woman play follows the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Let It Shine: A Visit with Fannie Lou Hamer, a one-woman play written by Frank Khun and starring Sharon Miles, follows Hamer from humble ...

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV Civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer is remembered by those how worked side by side with her in the ...

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HARTMAN HAS YOUR FULL FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A MOMENT. NEW TODAY, THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM AWARDED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON FANNIE LOU HAMER, IS NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE METRO. 16 WAPT NEWS ...

Civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom is now on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The Medal of Freedom was unveiled on display in the “I Question America” ...